Swapping core residues in homologous proteins swaps folding mechanism

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3082-3090

  Dalessio, Paula M ^a   Boyer, Joshua A ^a   McGettigan, Jessica L ^a   Ropson, Ira J ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPIDS; MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ILEAL LIPID BINDING PROTEIN (ILBP); INTESTINAL FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN (IFABP); PROTEIN FOLDING;

PROTEINS;

CORE PROTEIN; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; GUANIDINE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS, SODIUM-DEPENDENT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RATS; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 14344249973     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048125u     Document Type: Article

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